English

Alternative forms

• rapturise

Verb

rapturize ‎(third-person singular simple present rapturizes, present participle rapturizing, simple past and past participle rapturized)

1. (transitive) To put in a state of rapture.
   • 1844, John H. Goldsmith, The advance of science, and perfectibility of its professors:

     Soothing's various systems were tried, and her amanuensis (he who pens this, by their desire) laid her strange malady before your august body: and then it was, the light of your penetration rapturized the world by proclaiming, that her wings, instead of those her fears imagined, were long enough for her intended flight […]

   • 1952, Joseph O'Kane Foster, A Cow is Too Much Trouble in Los Angeles, page 24:

     "Do not rapturize her with love, hombre," said Jorge, coming down the path, hitching up his white trousers.

   • 2013, James MacGregor Burns, The American Experiment: The Vineyard of Liberty, The Workshop of Democracy, and The Crosswinds of Freedom:

     Speakers broke into song and verse as they rapturized the revolutionary upsurge in Paris and the start of "freedom's glorious reign."

2. (intransitive) To enter a state of rapture.
   • 1832, Charles Darwin, The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: 1821-1836, volume 1, Cambridge University Press, published 1985, letter dated May 3rd 1832:

     I will not rapturize again: but I give myself great credit in not being crazy out of pure delight.

   • 1848, “Rome: its Present State and Prospects”, in The North British Review, volume 9, page 417:

     They discuss its ruins, rapturize over its statues, bask in its sunshine, criticise its pictures, stare a little at its Church ceremonies—and this is all.

   • 1852, Thomas Hall, Floss; or, the progress of an Adventurer in the regions of Australia, page 201:

     Don Gonselmo had but about three attendants, who were busily engaged in rapturizing and listening with their mouths, for they were wide open, to the enchanting tones of the fair Zuletta—when before them stood, uncovered, uncloaked, and not expected, a well-dressed stranger.